X-Git-Url: http://git.silcnet.org/gitweb/?p=runtime.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=370c15318b400ceb3ce8d34d85d3d145231b57a0;hp=1236d92ec685606bdab9597241b2ba57852b15df;hb=HEAD;hpb=e8b3711134ef37555deb444a44664302c6aaaaed diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 1236d92e..370c1531 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,32 +1,21 @@ Quick Installation ================== - To configure and compile SILC package give the comands: + To configure and compile SILC Runtime Toolkit give the commands: ./configure - make (or gmake, GNU make is required) + make make install - This will install the SILC binaries and configuration files into the -/usr/local/silc/ directory. System wide configuration files are installed -into the /etc/silc/ directory. - -Some Configuration Options -========================== +Configuration Options +===================== You can give various options to the `configure' shell script. You should give --help command to the `configure' to see all of them. Here is listed few options that you might want to use. Please refer to the rest of this file for more generic installation instructions. -`--with-gmp[=DIR]' - - If you wish to use GMP library for arbitrary precision arithmetic -library instead of using the MPI library included in the package, you can -give the --with-gmp[=DIR] option to the `configure'. The DIR is the upper -path in your system which contains lib/ and include/ for GMP library. - -'--with-iconv[=DIR]' +`--with-iconv[=DIR]' If your system doesn't provide iconv() function in its native libraries (usually libc) or if this function is broken (e.g. older Solaris systems), @@ -57,6 +46,16 @@ you can give this option to the `configure'. However, if it fails, but you still want to compile in the IPv6 support you can give --enable-ipv6 option to force the IPv6 support. +`--disable-cpu-optimizations' + + By default the configure script will attempt to detect the type of your +CPU and enable any features specific to your CPU that could optimize the +performance of the Toolkit. If you are creating binary package that should +work on any CPU (and not only your CPU) you should diable these +optimizations. If you compile it for yourself only, keeping the +optimizations enabled is recommended. + + Basic Installation ==================